There Is No Light: Enhanced Edition

I tried to like this game, but I just couldn't. Visuals are great, characters and story are interesting, settings is great, but combat, enemy count and placement (especially on platforming sections) are a complete mess. Combat: on one hand we have interesting system that gives us good action and encourages us to play more active than passive, on the other hand enemy count during closed arenas is so big that the entire screen gets filled with a bunch of visual effects that completely destroys said system since you literally can't see what's happening most of the time so you can't control your actions properly, but most important - you can't see what's your enemies are doing so you can't react and utilize your options properly. On top of that there is a clunkiness in your moves and actions that may cause you to be unable to react even in one-on-one fights since you're stuck in animation and the enemy is already hitting you despite you interrupting their last attack. Enemy placement: in overworld exploration it is not a big problem (yet still is a problem, since many times you'll be bombarded with ranged attacks from off-screen enemies), but on the platforming sections? Boy it's really bad, to the point of not being challenging but just pure bullcrap - you jump almost blindly on the tight moving platform and the moment you land you get hit by an enemy that comes at you from the off-screen at 300 km/h speed to hit you and then immediately fly away so you can't hit it back, yet the platform is moving forward and you get hit by another flying enemy with the first one still hitting-and-running. It's just annoying and simply frustrating. Changing the difficulty (I don't see it as something bad - if I lack the skill to play it on "hard", then I have no problem admitting that I'm bad at the game and lowering the difficulty to enjoy the game) didn't seem to change much, as I didn't notice that changing enemy count or their behavior. It is sad, since I was really interested in this game, but alas, I had to drop it and move on.

В "пикселях" немаловажно повествование, а оно здесь дёрганое и не понятное. То ГГ пользуется мечем, то нет, то всех вывозит как мэрисью то нет, причем всё буквально в введении! В общем задушнило!

完了几分钟~我就看出制作组最大的问题，贫穷！！！画面和操作感实在让我玩不下去！

mola

攻擊方式沒啥變化玩到後面很無聊，純粹考驗你的反應力

Эта игра снова напомнила мне о важности сохранения нервных клеток и получения удовольствия от игры. И если для этого придётся выбрать детскую лопаточку... Что-ж придётся играть с детской лопаточкой. До этого я очень сильно злился играя в эту игру, очень... что меня хватило на целую гневную тираду, но теперь я успокоился, сменил лёгкость и спокойно допрошёл игру. У игры много минусов, но по большей части на них можно закрыть глаза если играешь именно на режиме путешественника, а не на стандартном - ВОИНА. Единственное на что нельзя закрыть глаза, так это когда во время битв с боссами игра иногда стирает либо тебя, либо босса, и бой закончить невозможно, это уже удручает, даже на режиме с лопаточкой. И я могу предположить, почему у игры такой большой отток игроков. Если бы разработчик позиционировал стандартный режим, то есть режим ВОИНА, как хардкорный режим, то мне кажется, больше игроков прошло хотя бы одного босса. А так, разработчик явно намекает, что раз ты не вывозишь стандарт, то иди ка ты в песочке поиграй, дружок. Если моя теория ошибочна, тогда игра попала в омут невезения, и вылезти ей суждено не будет. Других вариантов такого малого количества сыгравших людей я не вижу.

It's hard to put my finger on it, but this game just isn't working out and I can't imagine it getting any better. I say I can't put my finger on it, but there are some massive, glaring issues such as a confusing map with no sense of direction, a really bland start the the story (religion bad, how original), and the first ~45 mins is just wading through mountains of dialogue that fail to explain anything sufficiently enough for me to really understand what's going on and I seriously mean mountains - random side characters will have nothing meaningful to say and take 5-10 dialogue boxes to say it. The edgy dark humor thing the game tries to pull off doesn't work and overall I'm just confused. What I'm having a hard time articulating is why the combat feel horrible. It just doesn't work at all. I feel like the various elements are conflicting with each other. Do you want to be a super fast hack'n'slash or do you want to be Dark Souls? It seems to pick random elements of both genres and cram them together and they aren't working. When I finally got to some combat at about an hour in, I was immediately turned off by how terrible it felt.